Thursday, April 12, 2012

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Tube by Zilvinas Kempinas

Tube by Zilvinas Kempinas:



I knew about some works of  Zilvinas Kempinas, even I published some of them while ago such as his Double O consisting in two large electric fans at two loops of magnetic tape causing them to seemingly perpetually fly and dance between the fans. But I don't remember to see this great installation called "Tube" which is also built using the same material that Zilvinas Kempinas usually uses, magnetic tape from old VHS. Tube was created in Atelier Calder, Saché, France and then was set up for the Lithuanian pavilion in Venice, 2009. Tube installation offers an optical experience to the viewer creating lots of different moire visual effects,  and as well as a perception of the body and architecture. See more;

“I am attracted to things that are capable of transcending their own banality and materiality to become something else, something more. I like the way that videotape is simultaneously delicate and durable, since it’s meant to last. I can rip it easily with my hands because it’s so thin, but I can also stretch it. Videotape is made to present the world in color, but it appears purely black. It’s supposed to be this safe container of the past, but it is destined to vanish like a dinosaur, to become obsolete, pushed away by new technologies. It’s a familiar mass-produced commodity, but it can be surprisingly sensual and can look almost alive if set in motion. It can be seen as a solid, thick, black line, but it can also disappear right in front of your eyes if it’s turned on its side” - Zilvinas Kempinas









TUBE, Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Lithuanian Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009.







"Tube", 2008. Installation at Atelier Calder, France


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Art In NYC: Lil B at the New Museum and a Kraftwerk-Inspired Dance Party

Art In NYC: Lil B at the New Museum and a Kraftwerk-Inspired Dance Party:

This week in NYC catch Lil B perform at the New Museum, dance to techno pioneers Juan Atkins and Francois K at MoMA PS1, and sink into Ernesto Neto’s crocheted installation at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. Read on for ten of the best openings, parties, and performances, or you can check out full calendar here.

1. Alejandra Prieto Makes Her New York Solo Debut

Y Gallery, 165 Orchard St.

Opening Reception, Wednesday, April 11 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Last year, Alejandra Prieto was awarded the prestigious CCU Art Grant for the promotion of Chilean artists, and she is currently a resident at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP). Y Gallery, in partnership with CCU, presents the artist’s first New York solo show featuring several large coal-based works.

2. Rapper Lil B Performs at the New Museum

The New Museum, 235 Bowery

Thursday, April 12 6:30 p.m.

The latest in a slew of social-media masters who have turned their internet fame into brand name recognition, Lil B is a prolific songwriter with a voracious fan-base. At the age of twenty-two, Lil B has released more than three thousand songs on YouTube, MySpace, and Twitter. Also a published author, he has crafted his own philosophy called the “Based” lifestyle. The show is a part on the New Museum’s ongoing “Get Weird” music series.





Tim Hetherington, Untitled, Liberia, 2003. Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery.


3. Tim Hetherington’s Photographs from War-Torn States

Yossi Milo, 525 W 25th st.

Opening Reception Thursday, April 12 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Tim Hetherington won numerous awards for his work as a documentary photographer and filmmaker, but he may be best known for his work as co-director on the documentary film Restrepo, for which he won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature. Tim was tragically killed while documenting the unrest in Libya in 2011. Yossi Milo Gallery is proud to present photographs from Liberia and Afghanistan, as well as two short films.





Alex Rose, Untitled, 2008. Courtesy of Envoy Enterprises.

4. See Alex Rose’s Works, While They Last

Envoy Enterprises, 131 Chrystie St

Opening Reception Thursday, April 12, RSVP only

Alex Rose’s work is rarely seen and appearances by the artist are even rarer. His collages and journals are deeply personal and he is at times reluctant to share them with the public. Upon deinstallation, the works are burned and buried, and sometimes the fragments are recycled into future works. Rose’s ephemeral works will be on view until May 13, at which time they will disappear into the ether.
5. New York 20th Century Art and Design Fair (NYC20)

Tent at Lincoln Center, East 62nd Street (between Amsterdam & Columbus Avenues)

Preview Party: Thursday, April 12 6:00 p.m.

NYC20 will feature thirty-six of the top design and furniture dealers from around the country and showcase stylistic movements from throughout the 20th century. A special exhibition space curated by Gerard O’Brien, of the Los Angeles-based Reform Gallery, will celebrate the works of the modernist furniture designer Paul McCobb.





Heather Hart, The Northern Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off the Mother, 2010. Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum.

6. Bed-Stuy-Based Heather Hart’s Contribution to Brooklyn Museum’s Raw/Cooked Series

Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy.

Opens Friday, April 13

The fourth in the Brooklyn Museum’s Raw/Cooked series for Brooklyn-based artists, Heather Hart has created an installation for the museum’s fifth floor rotunda. The work, titled The Eastern Oracle, is a built-to-scale rooftop, appearing as if it has been removed from a house. Visitors are encouraged to climb on and interact with the structure and use it as “a place for self-reflection and self-empowerment.”
7. EAI and Dia Arts Foundation Honor Mike Kelley

Electronic Arts Intermix and Dia Arts Foundation, 541 W. 22nd St.

Saturday, April 14 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Electronic Arts Intermix and the Dia Arts Foundation present a twelve-hour screening of Mike Kelley’s video works in a tribute to the late artist. A native of Detroit, Kelley was known for his installation works and his performances with the experimental band Destroy All Monsters. He was an inspiring mentor for many students at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design and did many collaborations with artists such as Tony Oursler, Paul McCarthy, and the band Sonic Youth.





Ernesto Neto, anthropodino (installation view), 2009. Photo courtesy of James Ewing and the Park Avenue Armory.

8. Climb Through Ernesto Neto’s Latest Installation

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, 521 West 21st Street

Opening Reception Saturday, April 14 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

In 2009, Ernesto Neto took over the Park Avenue Armory’s entire 55,000-square-foot exhibition hall for an interactive installation consisting of amorphous mesh forms that guided the viewer through a colorful labyrinth not unlike a coral reef. He currently has a much-praised exhibition at the FAENA Arts Center in Buenos Aires, and his upcoming show at Tanya Bonakdar is not likely to disappoint.

9. Watch Auditions for Unnamed Broadway Musical: The Musical!

EFA Project Space, 323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor

Begins Saturday, April 14 12:00 p.m.

Artist Kara Hearn is undertaking the ambitious task of producing her own Broadway-inspired musical in a five-week performance that will include auditions and rehearsals, culminating in a final show. Participants get the chance to star in a famous Broadway musical about an orphan that shall remain unnamed. Auditions begin Saturday and will be open to the public, so stop by for some American-Idol-style action.





Kraftwerk. Courtesy of Sprueth Magers, Berlin and London. © Kraftwerk.

10. MoMA PS1 Hosts the Kraftwerk Music Festival

MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave

April 14-15, 3:00 – 6:00 p.m.

In celebration of MoMA’s Kraftwerk retrospective, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, MoMA PS1 presents a weekend of electronic-based musical performances by legendary DJs Francois K and Juan Atkins. Get your dance on in the courtyard and then check out the eight-channel video and sound installation in the geodesic dome.
Upcoming Benefits
Year Ten Benefit Auction

Participant Inc., April 14, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
TRIBECA BALL 2012

New York Academy of Art, April 16, 6:00 p.m. – 11:45 p.m.
Art Production Fund Urban Hoedown

Art Production Fund, April 16, 7:00 p.m.
Public Art Fund Spring Benefit: Installation in Progress

Skylight Studios SoHo, April 17, 6:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Artists Ball After Party

Brooklyn Museum, April 18, 9:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.





Bernard Voïta

Bernard Voïta:








Bernard Voïta
Work from his oeuvre.
“…Over the past years Bernard Voïta has worked almost exclusively in the medium of photography, although the way he does so is often compared to sculpture. In his work he challenges the medium’s boundaries and its imputations and sounds out its potential as well as questions of perception. Out of simple found objects, Voïta constructs three-dimensional models in his atelier, which he, in a second step, records with his camera. His works do not picture an out-there reality, but an arranged-by-the-artist, complex sculptural design that finds culmination in its photographic depiction. Thus images arise that allude to modernist architecture and city landscapes, or to arrangements and patterns that border on abstraction.These, via the composition, utilize the medium’s own effects, such as depth of field and the loss of real dimensions. The perspectivally arranged objects together conform to one plane.Which objects and arrangements are represented behind the images is no longer discernible to the eyes of the beholder. It is in the photograph itself that a meaningful dimension of the installation first gets composed into something new…” – Gallery Bob Van Orsouw





Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Mark Jenkins

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All images © Mark Jenkins





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“Plot Fill XII”, 2008 by Daniel Lefcourt.




Koen Delaere

Koen Delaere:

This latest work by Koen Delaere is really beautiful, I'm loving the color palette used for each different gradient. Koen has made this work for featuring it on NOVA Festival which has started 2 days ago in Sao Paulo at MIS. This work consists in a bunch of printed stuff which will be the background for an "upcoming" new work, he explains a little bit more about; "I made some background silkscreenprints on double A0-sized paper at the GAD Eindhoven , pouring inks freely in the screen. With my friend Bas operating the squeegee and me folding the papers and (half-)controlling the colours." See more;







These following pictures are from Sao Paulo where Koen is (in these days 4, 5, 6 April) re-working all the pieces above. He is using them as a backgroung and using more tools in order to finish the pieces there at NOVA Festival.










Faith Condition 2012 by Lukas Franciszkiewicz – An ‘out-of-body’ experience..

Faith Condition 2012 by Lukas Franciszkiewicz – An ‘out-of-body’ experience..






Faith Condition by Lukas Franciszkiewicz is a project that attempts to address the understanding and applications of technology within the religions circles of current “media society”. Lukas is interested in the transformation of religion and technological reproduction of the religious phenomenon of an ‘out-of-body’-experience. The initial aim was the manipulation of human self-perception by blurring the boundaries between the real and a virtual body. Derived from these experiments, Lukas experimented with few scenarios for a disembodied sense
Continue reading.... Faith Condition 2012 by Lukas Franciszkiewicz – An ‘out-of-body’ experience..




The Crooked Plumbing of Humanity

The Crooked Plumbing of Humanity:

David Opdyke observed firsthand a moment cracks appeared in the edifice of progress. Growing up in Schenectady, New York in the ’70s, he saw the city once home to Thomas Edison’s Machine Works, G.E., and ALCO decline into a state of abandonment, returning in bits and pieces to nature.
Opdyke’s models of bizarre, abandoned structures embody uncertainty about the sustainability of current ways of life, while also calling to mind desolate suburban Superfund sites or futuristic Soviet monuments succumbing to the elements. In one sculpture, bits of waste disposal infrastructure curl into flowering plants. It’s not preachy agitprop—the meticulously rendered pieces exhibit an uneasy but unflinching fascination with the world we have wrought.
David Opdyke: Accumulated Afterthoughts opens April 19 at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, NYC.





David Opdyke, Fixed Cycle, 2012. Courtesy Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery.





David Opdyke, Dredge, 2012, styrofoam, plastic, rocks, case. Courtesy Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery.





David Opdyke, House Decon, 2012, painted plastic, flock, wood. Courtesy Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery.





David Opdyke, Peak Production, globe, painted foam, plastic, paper. Courtesy Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery.







Post-Trolling: A Conversation with Art404

Post-Trolling: A Conversation with Art404:


Motorola Droid XL, 2011
Art404 is comprised of Manuel Palou and Moises Sanabria.
This interview was conducted over multiple online chat sessions beginning
in March 2012 through April 2012.




louisdoulas: Let’s start with Art Not
Found or Art404. Could you tell me
a little more about its connotations?
artnotfound: Art404 is a pun
for artnotfound, a motto that gives us a certain level of transparency. We
don't want to get hung up on making art and
exclude anybody from our work.
louisdoulas: So the absence
implies a kind of non-context for framing production?
artnotfound: Well the internet functions in a non-context
anyway. We want to create content and value more than we want to create art.
louisdoulas: Right, without the prerequisite motivations of
making an artwork per se, just ‘pure’ creative production.
artnotfound: It's relentless creative production and discussion.
That’s the future of content.
louisdoulas: So then there’s
this awareness of the potential insularities or exclusiveness of the art world, or at least a hesitation to
participate within this context? Perhaps which is why you're attracted to the internet
in the first place, as it levels out all content.
artnotfound: Yes definitely. By opening up the discussion to
everyone it democratizes content. And if successful, any further discussion of
that content gives it social value.
louisdoulas: Cultural Capital
artnotfound: Art404 likes
this.
louisdoulas: I'm interested in these notions of 'opening up
discussion', surrounding content, in this case specifically your work; what
does this mean for you?
artnotfound: It means our mothers can engage with our work as
much as a gallerist can. The internet is allowing people to take part in things
they never would have before, opening up the possibilities for a much larger
discussion. When both ends of the spectrum: high and low culture, exist on the
same field, exciting things happen.  The
outcome of this discussion creates a higher, or "purer" value.
A gallerist once talked to us about "the kitty cat realm", a
world where artists are
reduced to a sort of novelty, enjoyable by a wide audience, much the way a cute
kitten is.  The art world seems to try to stray away
from this phenomenon, where we find value and possibility in it.
louisdoulas: And our relationship with the internet only seems to get more confrontational with sites like Mega Upload forced offline, Pirate Bay
switching to their Swedish domain to avoid domain seizure, the increased exploitation of users within
Facebook and issues with self-proclaimed 'democratic' art practices and ideology itself.  Your poem, BE reflects on
some of these conflicts, specifically on corporatization and lifestyle
commodification.
artnotfound: In BE, we weren't
trying highlight the negative in advertising, but rather make a sort of mock
manifesto for what advertising proposes.
Lifestyle marketing is changing rapidly with the internet and while
people complain about ads and search engines becoming more targeted, it's
actually making the ad industry more transparent. Technology is getting better
at revealing our desires and making us aware of them, and this tension should
empower people, not scare them.  Now that
the technology is here, people can be content aware.
It's going to back to the idea of high and low co-existing. On one hand
it's opening these brands to critique, and at the same time linking to them so
you can explore and form your own thoughts. In this way, we can accept and
negate advertising at the same time.
louisdoulas: There is quite a divide on these issues of privacy
and advertising.  I
think this simultaneity is interesting: this acceptance and rejection of
advertising, of commodified desires that seem to be especially apparent in
interface design and marketing campaigns for most digital ephemera.  Seeing brands like Nike or Carhartt feature
user product reviews directly on their websites as a kind of crowdsourced testimony
to their product illustrate this type of transparency you mentioned.
What you seem to be alluding to though, is this empowering
of the user, of the consumer, in an ultimate transparent society that
eventually leads corporations and consumers to exist in a perpetual public
sphere causing both to act within less deceptive, falsifying modes?
artnotfound: That's the idea and ultimately
what we hope will happen. People have always consumed products and content
intuitively, but now we live in an age of information where people have the
means to inform themselves and others. This "informed intuition" is
an important principle to us in all aspects of life, from making artwork to
getting the right product.
If you have the internet, there really is no excuse to be
ignorant anymore.

BE, 2011
louisdoulas: Then the decision to work with
Verizon Wireless to make a supersized version of the Motorola Droid was obviously an important one?
artnotfound: For us, it's important to
diversify the people we collaborate with, especially to go beyond the art
scene. We see big brands like Verizon or Google as an opportunity to reach more
people. We plan on bringing the phone out in public to call attention both to
the absurdity of the phone and to highlight the future of this technology by
showing you the complete opposite. Phones are trying to get physically smaller
while their function and importance in our culture is exploding. By using the Droid XL as a "practical"
object instead of an artwork we can make fun of the technology while glorifying
it as something that's so important it needs to be mocked.
louisdoulas: The mockery of phone size to this reality of reliance produces a certain ambivalence for a future
increasingly automated. Is this accurate? Perhaps some of the ideas and reactions
in Droid XL can be found in Simages?
artnotfound: We're obsessed with automation,
both as something scary and beautiful. Simages
starts to point at that. We created this lovely, "ideal" living
situation and then let it run automatically, only to watch the Sims lives
crumble as they run on autopilot. Dirty dishes begin to pile up, the family
stops talking to each other and they lose the things that make them a "perfect"
family.
As we move to a more automated culture, we're making our
lives easier while changing the perceived value of time management. We're
working on an app that will automatically text your mother every night. Both as
a practical way of automating love, and as a comment on how technology is changing
time management.  By exploring the limits
of automation, we can have a better understanding of what it means to us and
what the best path to take is. We can make an "informed" choice, so
to speak.
louisdoulas: Time, seems to have become more
combative, or least its passing more 'apparent' today.  Have you ever used Steve Lambert's Self-Control app?
I think productivity and what it challenges and defines
seems to be more and more of a preoccupation for this generation of cultural producers. These notions of leisure: recreation in contrast to 'productivity' and the strive for this supposed balance is something we think automation would hope to make easier, such as the app you're working on. But of
course we can see this becoming problematic, this gesture of an automated text
to one's mother.
artnotfound:
It's post-trolling, an ironic and almost sinister gesture that reveals
something really telling. It definitely makes texting your mother manually more
meaningful if you have the option to do it automatically.

Simages, 2011
louisdoulas:
Going back to the potential threats the internet faces, your work 5 millions dollars 1 TB consists of a myriad of torrented
software files ranging from Adobe Suite to the Rosetta Stone Language Pack.
You've even made these files available to download online. You've made your
politics quite clear here and so I wanted to ask what your role is as artists
with a work like this?
artnotfound:
Well we're just playing devils advocate to the larger issue at hand, rather
than trying to instill too much of our own politics. In 5m1t, the issue is obviously the amount of freely available content
on the web and the translation of that value into the physical space. Our role
as artists is merely to reveal the elephant in the room; these files already
existed on the web and were easily searchable. It wasn't until we started
archiving them on the hard drive that we realized the magnitude of the
situation.
louisdoulas: The presentation of this piece in
the gallery: the external hard drive as this slick humming black monolith where upon
realizing its hidden worth and actual 'value' becomes a sort of spectacle.  Its physical manifestation creates
this weight of worth and it becomes a banal and brazen presentation of the fixivity of 'illegal' data.
artnotfound: We
like that description. Ultimately we think the piece succeeds in offering a
point of reference to the rampant amount of piracy going on the internet. The
grotesque value of the files being contrasted by the small, sleek hard drive is
a nice metaphor for the ease of file sharing versus their perceived damage.

5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte, 2011
louisdoulas: We're used to being weightless in
a way when it comes to dispersing and acquiring content online. We often forget
the actual materiality and reality of our communicative devices, their storage and maintenance, electricity, etc. and also the actual repercussions of
online activity. On one level that's why SOPA seemed so profound (the success of the protests against it and experiencing this 'win' as an online collective).
artnotfound: All
online activity has real life consequences. Our piece and SOPA are just
physical incarnations of that. The digital coming into the real, and the real
going digital, it's a beautiful thing.
louisdoulas: Conrad I
think is worth mentioning here—Conrad's internet presence as a way of dealing
with the loss of his wife. This work, along with Man's
Google Search for Meaning
and even Simages all kind of depict an absence; there's a hint of
depression, or a self-devouring nihilism in these three.
artnotfound: If
we can harness this nihilism in a way that has poetic resonance, we'll have
something of value. If we can get you to see it, understand it, and experience
it, we can get you to reflect on it. Once people start reflecting they can form
their own ideas and empower themselves through that. You can be nihilistic
while still suggesting a resolution.

Conrad, 2011
louisdoulas: And how did you stumble upon
Conrad? What made you want to highlight him?
artnotfound: We
stumbled on Conrad on a small, private message board and were immediately
captivated. He's such a perfect example of humans giving technology a higher
significance. To record yourself is to quantify ones self, and he's devoted
quite a bit of time doing that. The motivation for him is simply to
communicate, and the sheer number his videos really tells you how urgent it is.
Because all his videos are essentially the same, it really makes it a digital
ritual.
louisdoulas: Art404 seems to be very optimistic about the
future, especially technology and the internet's role in it, but what are some
of your concerns at the moment?
artnotfound: We are digital natives, any
concerns we do have about technology we feel comfortable confronting them. The
more informed you are, the less vulnerable you are. Any problems with
technology can be tackled with technology. As long as we're responsible when
using technology to replace and augment our lives, we think we'll be OK.
There needs to be a humanist approach to the ethics of
technology. Innovation and advancement without compromising the human, those
are the types of things we are a part of.
louisdoulas: With these changes the role of
the artist changes as well. Besides incorporating
various digital ephemera/aesthetic into works of art, how do you see the position of the artist changing in all of this? The artist's role in production and distribution?
artnotfound: We're biased, but we see it as
the most exciting time ever. Artists can do everything now, they can be
their own photographer, gallerist, curator, critic, market team, audience,
everything. Producing and distributing is no longer an industry thing, but an
everybody thing. Anybody can post a picture and someone else can immediately
remix it into something new and this is happening exponentially so. Even if
most of the internet is creating content just to LOL, the energy that comes
with that is inspiring.
The old "everyone is an artist" adage has never been more true in today's there's-an-app-for-that
world. It's no coincidence that this internet generation has seen a rise in
artsy, creative people that are obsessed with sharing their ideas. Whether the
content they're producing has artistic merit or not is irrelevant, the enthusiasm
to do so is what matters.
Now that everybody is a content creator, it's going to push
the artist wishing to rise above the
clutter to work harder, do more, and innovate constantly. In a world where
everyone's fighting for attention, people are going to get more creative. A new
breed of work and art making
will lead the relentless content creating culture and we’re excited about it.


Man's Google Search For Meaning, 2011
louisdoulas: There is obviously a danger in complete
democratization, or in everyone becoming an artist.  Boris
Groys talks a little about this in his essay, ‘The Weak Universalism’. But, I
want to know where critique comes in for you? What is being done in the
name of all this mass creative progress?
artnotfound: Critique is a very complex
subject now that so many people are involved. Practically everything we say is
public now and this really affects the way we communicate. When not covered by
the veil of anonymity, our critique is subject to its own critique. We hope
that this won't become a norm, and that people will always speak their mind,
otherwise the internet will devolve into a giant circle jerk.
louisdoulas: These ideas of public
transparency, anonymity and collectivity are all pertinent strategies or alternative
ways of 'movement' and governance. This dynamic between individualism and the
group is interesting and I'm curious to hear your positions on these things.
Maybe a good place to start would be on a tangent, with the Anonymous
vs. Gagosian
incident?
artnotfound: Anonymous vs. Gagosian was a sort of chance art happening, the kind
that only happens on the internet. A hacker identifying with the internet
"group" Anonymous thought it would be funny to take down our website,
screenshot it, and email it to us. It was funny, and we immediately wanted
more. After a few emails, he admitted he had been trying to get into the art
scene for years. We convinced him/her that they would be better suited taking down
more important art websites as institutional critique. The next day, he had
taken down the front pages of Gagosian, David Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth, and
Tate.
If one person can censor an entire power structure with
the press of a few keystrokes, what does that say about the politics of digital
culture? People aren't afraid to take action behind a computer screen. The net
allows everyday people can become leaders, tastemakers, and icons. By
documenting these happenings we hope it will motivate people to talk, troll,
spam and flame their thoughts to the world. We always look forward to
collaborating with the internet.
The great thing is that you can be an individual and a
group, you don't have to pick a side. You can be a boy or a girl, old or young,
whatever you want. There's tons of up and downs to this new ability, and a
whole new set of rules. Understanding the dynamics between real and digital
culture will prepare us for the future.

Anonymous Vs. Gagosian, 2011
louisdoulas:  The Pirate Bay's
Aerial Server Drones are also a good example of some of these emerging
techniques and strategies.
artnotfound:  Those are
really next level. Props to The Pirate Bay.


Anonymous Vs. Gagosian, 2011
louisdoulas:  I
think as you said, 'understanding the dynamics between the real and the digital',
will prepare us for the future.  Often times social networking, emerging technology and the internet is treated,
at least by the media, as a kind of new 'revolution celebrity' and so a lot of
emphasis and faith is placed on these various kinds of cybernetic theories.  And through all this it seems
that there isn't a declared political form, but rather that a form supposedly emerges in and out from reactions to various events. It’s an abandonment of political action by pure force that’s in favor
more so of an accumulative power. I even want to draw a parallel
to the practice of Relational Aesthetics and the type of technique used: the
creation of 'alternatives' and 'comprises' rather than a complete redesigning
and reconfiguring of society and the world.
artnotfound:  Alternative sounds like
it's outside of something. We're not splitting off from reality, just
augmenting it. Now, the collective actions of a lot of individual people and
small groups can snowball into something much faster. It's the same strategy
that's always been around, just on steroids.